MRI

CHICAGO - Magnetic resonance images can detect significant strain on the heart following consumption of energy drinks high in caffeine and taurine.

Brain imaging helps detect effectiveness of pregabalin among patients with fibromyalgia.

More screening breast MRIs performed, but improvement in appropriate use still needed.

Breast cancer screening and surveillance MRI use increased significantly over a decade - but not among the women who need it most.

Diffusion tensor imaging has detected that alterations in brain connections among patients with temporal lobe epilepsy are more widespread than thought.

Clinicians should view screening MRI-detected breast lesions that change with suspicion and do further testing.

New MRI method could lead to faster, more accurate multiple sclerosis diagnosis in the living brain.

A new technique, quantitative T1 mapping with cardiovascular MRI, can help clinicians detect Fabry disease and the severity of heart damage.

Insufficient evidence proving benefit of Alzheimer’s drug Amyvid behind Medicare’s ruling to limit or deny coverage.

Using a ferromagnetic detection system before MRI may boost safety, detecting implanted or embedded items that may contraindicate the exam.

Doctors with imaging center financial interests may order more unneeded knee MRIs than those referring to unrelated centers.

Whole-body MRI may help detect cardiovascular and cerebrovascular changes in patients with diabetes, allowing more aggressive management.

Clinicians using 18F-FDG PET on patients with cervical spinal cord compression may be able to predict an improved outcome after surgical decompression.

Women with breast cancer who undergo preoperative MRI have a higher rate of bilateral mastectomies and contralateral prophylactic mastectomies than women who aren’t scanned.

MRI images of the brain may help clinicians identify kindergarten-aged children with dyslexia before they have started to learn how to read.

Fusing MRI and ultrasound may help to better target treatment for prostate cancer.

Despite the availability of clinical guidelines for optimal spine care for back pain patients, many unnecessary diagnostic imaging tests are being performed.

Specialized MRIs allow physicians to view progress in brain cancer treatment before it can be detected by standard MRI, allowing for early therapy changes.

Web-based quality control system results in significantly fewer common image quality errors radiographs, CTs and MRIs.

Using a half dose of contrast with 3-T MRI for patients with early rheumatoid arthritis shows identical image quality as full-dose.

MRI may replace conditional CT for appendicitis detection in adults because of its similar accuracy rate.

Nuclear medicine and MR technologists recommend regulations around education, certification and staffing for the new hybrid technology.

Contrast-enhanced MR imaging can find undiagnosed infection at the site of contaminated spinal injections.

Using MRI to obtain two measurements in the abdominal aorta may help physicians predict which patients may go on to have a cardiac event.